A visitor to my neighbour’s almond tree — which got me thinking about how much wildlife exists in Australian suburbs — not just creepy crawlies (Australia is a paradise for insects), but feathered friends and reptiles and pet escapees.
If we leave out red-backed spiders and an old neighbour’s half-feral cat, the scariest backyard invader I’ve encountered is a blue tongue lizard.
You can imagine how happy I was, picking strawberries and unexpectedly touching scales!
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That's a gorgeous bird. Do you know what it is?
A rainbow lorikeet! http://birdsinbackyards.net/species/Trichoglossus…
The twenty eight is the parrot I'm more familiar with — from childhood when Dad used to wish he could shoot them — not that he's bloody thirsty, just that they were eating all the fruit off the trees 🙂
http://birdsinbackyards.net/species/Barnardius-zo…
and the 28 is called a 28 because that's what it shrieks while raiding orchards "twentyeight!"